MyOSG (myosg.grid.iu.edu), developed at Indiana University, is an information consolidation and presentation web tool used to create custom user views from several OSG data sources. These include information data such as BDII and GIP Validation, monitoring data gathered by Resource and Service Validation (RSV) Probes, accounting data from Gratia, and administrative data from the OSG Information Management (OIM) database.

The idea for MyOSG came from listening to the OSG Community during face-to-face meetings. "Many OSG Resource Providers were telling us there were too many different websites to visit to keep track of their Resource status." says Rob Quick, the Operations Coordinator for the OSG. "We needed a service to consolidate OSG information." These included separate addresses for accounting, health, and information used for job level decision making, and information validation, plus other Virtual Organization contributed dashboards.

 "While we were planning MyOSG, we realized there was another fundamental problem with existing information presentation services and dashboards, they gave you views of all of OSG, and there were as many different responsibility sets as there were people in the OSG." continues Rob. "When an OSG collaborator told me the history of Grid Monitoring was littered with thrown away dashboard projects, I knew we had to think of a different approach."

 MyOSG selection criteria allow each user to have a unique view of content gathered from multiple sources within OSG. It also allows export into a generic widget format (UWA) to personalized workflow environments such as iGoogle, NetVibes, and other widget viewers including mobile devices.

 Soichi Hayashi the primary developer of MyOSG commented on the approach taken by the development team and the UWA technology. "Although UWA is not as actively developed as it was about a year ago, it allows us to provide MyOSG content to wide range of users without having to support them individually. Most recently, the GOC infrastructure team is working to provide a simplified version of MyOSG content that can be displayed on personal portals and more
 importantly, various hand-held devices through their web browsers. GOC believes that this approach works better than using UWA alone because most of the content that we provide through UWA does not require a complex user interface, it is faster, and can be consumed by more portals and hand-held devices." Soichi was assisted in planning and development by Arvind Gopu.

 After collaborating with EGEE as a peering grid and participating in interoperability monitoring groups to meet the Worldwide LCG requirements, it was decided that EGEE would adopt MyOSG. "We adopted a standardized messaging format from EGEE based on this collaboration, now they are adopting a presentation layer from us."

 EGEE prototyped MyEGEE along with  updates to their overall Service Availability Monitoring (SAM) infrastructure update that also consists of Nagios monitoring components. A SAM presentation can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PADq2x8q0kw.

 James Casey from the EGEE project said “We’ve worked a long time with the OSG Operations Team on monitoring their their resources and making sure all the results are interoperable for our major customers like WLCG. This means that MyOSG is a natural fit into our environment and has required little tailoring to work in the EGEE environment. Getting visualization tools working right and looking good is always the hardest part of any monitoring project. When we saw the high-quality work already done on MyOSG we knew it was the best way for us to go."

 Please send questions about the MyOSG software to the Grid Operations Center at Indiana University: goc@opensciencegrid.org